A second 24 hour Tube strike starts at midnight and is expected to halt services across London throughout Thursday and in to Friday morning.

Transport for London (TfL) is advising Londoners whose journeys rely on Tube connections to work from home if they can or look for alternative travel options.

Road congestion is likely, while TfL is advising people to walk, cycle or use a rental e-scooter for all or part of their journeys where possible.

Other TfL services, including buses, DLR, London Overground, Trams and TfL Rail, are not affected by the strike action and will be running but be busier than normal.

The disruption is the result of industrial action by the RMT union over proposals on pensions, working conditions and jobs.

The union says a new funding deal forced on to TfL will harm the working conditions of its members who run Tube services. One of the options being discussed is speeding up a shift to driverless trains.

Last week, weekday ridership on the Tube hit two-thirds of pre-pandemic levels for the first time. The figure on Saturday reached up to 90per cent of pre-pandemic levels.

Chief operating officer at TfL, Andy Lord, said: "It's highly unlikely there will be an Underground service running during the strike."

RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: "Our members will be taking strike action because a financial crisis at LU (London Underground) has been deliberately engineered by the Government to drive a cuts agenda which would savage jobs, services, safety and threaten their working conditions and pensions.

"These are the very same transport staff praised as heroes for carrying London through Covid for nearly two years, often at serious personal risk, who now have no option but to strike to defend their livelihoods."

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